VOLUME 27, NUMBER 5 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MAY 2016 FOUNDED MAY 1989 MEETINGS - SECOND EDITOR COMMENTS SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Ransomware, which takes control of your files or computer and forces you to pay $300 or more to regain iPHONE/iPAD ISSUE control, is a growing form of malware. Antivirus apps don’t appear to stop it. W i p i n g y o u r M a c a n d Tips and Tricks To Make Your Images "Pop" restoring from backup Our main presenter at Saturday’s meeting will be Bill Achuff. The ability appears to be the only to digitally capture moments in our lives, is now in the hands of almost defense. Please read The everyone. Cameras have become as commonplace as has the mobile G r o w i n g T h r e a t o f phone. MY, how our lives have changed. Ransomware on pages 23-27. Many of us communicate with one another through photography— facilitated by resources like Flickr, Instagram, and Facebook. But just as not everyone who writes, can write WELL, not everyone who snaps a photo can capture an image that can convey a positive message. MAY LOCATION Bill will review some of the applications he uses to process the majority NOT OUR USUAL!! of his photos, including some that are free and many that are inexpensive and relatively easy to use. He’ll REMEMBER - We’re still steer clear of the mainstream apps like Lightroom and Photoshop and set sail into lesser charted waters. meet at Ludington Library "Recently I’ve begun trying to differentiate my work, even common photos, from those of others,” Bill says, “so I make extensive use of applications like: On1 Photo 10, Smart Photo Editor Studio, in Bryn Mawr because of PostworkShop, FX Photo Studio Pro, photoFXlab, etc. Turning my photos into oils, watercolors, construction at Good Sam. sketches, and cartoons stimulates my imagination BEYOND finding the perfect, or NOT so perfect I t ’s a t t h e c o r n e r o f subject, and photographing it in a unique way.” Lancaster and Bryn Mawr Bill Achuff’s most recent career—that of professional photographer, has extended more than a decade. Avenues, near the Bryn He’s chosen not to specialize in one particular genre, instead opting for variety and diversity in the subjects he photographs. “News photography gave me that,” Bill says, “but the need for professional Mawr train station. photography has diminished. More and more news outlets are quite content accepting photos from ANYONE, so long as they’re timely and free.” !1 VOLUME 27, NUMBER 5 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MAY 2016 Contributors & Authors CONTENTS Newsletter Editor Meeting & Editor Comments……………..…….…………1 Mark Bazrod Mark Bazrod MLMUG And Newsletter Info.…..……….………………2-4 Cory Bohon Bookmarks: Apple V. FBI………………………………5-7 Graphics Editor Kathy Garges 2016 Speaker Roster……………………………………….7 Sally Bazrod Brian Heater Turn On Siri on the iPad.………………………………8-10 Copy Editor Daniel Nations Select Text Faster On Your iPad Using……………….11 Deane Lappin the Virtual Touchpad Tom Nelson MLMUG Journal Set Any Picture As Background Wallpaper………..…12 Josh Norem On iPhone & iPad Masthead Leo Notenboom Designed by Dale Fletcher Take Notes On An iPad………..………………….…13-15 OSX Daily Based on prior designs by Best Ways To Print Photos From…..………………16-18 Your Smartphone Natasha Stokes Marc Robinson, Steve Evans & Bobby Foster Change Your Apple Device Names……………………19 Techradar Enable Wi-Fi Calling on iPhone……..…………..…20-21 M L M U G J o u r n a l i s published monthly by the Use Your iPad As A Phone…..…………………….……22 Main Line Macintosh Users The Growing Threat of Ransomware…………..…23-27 Group and is available MLMUG April 2016 Meeting Minutes…..………..….28-30 online. It is produced using Use Disk Utility To Clone A Mac's Drive…………….31-32 A p p l e P a g e s , w i t h a Take Screenshot And Copy To Clipboard…………….…32 Helvetica Neue font (Same How do I get rid of all this spam?!?!…………………33-35 as Yosemite). Find Files Faster Using Spotlight………………….…35-36 Keyword Searches Permission is granted to nonprofit groups and other Macintosh Best Free Photo Editing Software:………………..…37-40 10 Top Programs User Groups to reproduce items in this newsletter. Please include the author’s or artist’s name, the MLMUG Journal title, 2016 Guide: The Best Budget SSDs.……………..…41-44 and our copyright notice. A copy should also be mailed to: Ai: Best Of Both………………………………………. 44-46 Editor, MLMUG Journal, P.O. Box 1374, Southeastern, PA 19399 Photograph Of The Month………………..………….……40 or emailed to [email protected]. © 2016 Journal content not written by members is included courtesy of the sources or the fair use doctrine. Product names & images are trademarks or copyrights of the respective owners. !2 VOLUME 27, NUMBER 5 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MAY 2016 Typical Meeting Agenda 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting New Users SIG room. You don’t have to wait a whole month to 9:05 - 10:05: Three Concurrent Special get answers to your basic Mac questions! Interest Groups (SIGs) convene in Get together with other members on the fourth Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each separate rooms. The three current MLMUG Email list regular meeting) for the Startup Folder Lite. SIGs are: The Main Line Macintosh Users Group has its own email list. Many new users have said that they can Newer Users- We cover the most learn much more from face-to-face basic questions you may have about Compose your letter and email it to [email protected] and meetings than they do from manuals or your Mac/iDevices and how to use your message will be sent to other sources. That’s what this meeting is them. everyone on the mailing list. all about. Go to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html for details. Multimedia - We discuss using your Posting to this list is restricted to Mac/iDevices and applications for MLMUG members. Contact Bob Barton if you are a member and Macintosh Programming SIG/ photo, video, audio, and print media. you are not on the list. Philly Mac Programming Group The objective of this group is to help OS - We go beyond basics to Please observe rules of etiquette. members become more familiar with the discuss Apple’s current operating See the Yahoo Groups Terms of c o n c e p t s o f M a c i n t o s h a n d i O S systems, using your Macs & Service. The MLMUG list may be programming, i.e., the elements of the iDevices, & various applications, & used to post Apple/Macintosh- Macintosh GUI, user interaction, file have Q&A. related items for sale, but any system, etc., and the main Mac solicitation of members through programming tools: AppleScript, Java, C, 10:05 - 10:15: Continuation of Q&A for all the list is forbidden without the and Objective C. attendees. written consent of a MLMUG officer. The list is hosted at Yahoo The Philly Mac Programming SIG meets at 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. Groups. 10:30 AM on the first Saturday of each month, but usually skips January and July. 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a Contact Deivy Petrescu, Chair, for venue member or guest) information. www.phillymacprog.org. The 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. next meeting will probably be at Ludington Library in Bryn Mawr. Come join some fellow MLMUG members for lunch after the meeting at a nearby restaurant. !3 VOLUME 27, NUMBER 5 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MAY 2016 President, Program Director & Newsletter Copy Editor & Membership Information Vendor Liaison Apple User Group Membership dues are $25 for individuals and $35 for Maria O. Arguello Ambassador families. Memberships are based on your anniversary [email protected] Deane Lappin date, which is the month you joined. You will be e- Vice President & Promotion [email protected] mailed reminders when membership fee is due. Director Multimedia SIG Co-Chair If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if you’ve Susan Czarnecki Dale Fletcher been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, [email protected] [email protected] consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Treasurer, Membership & Facilities Coordinator Newer Users SIG Co-Chair " Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, Elliott Cobin & Deputy Webmaster and meet everyone from working Mac [email protected] Bob Barton professionals to new Mac users from all Secretary & Newsletter Editor [email protected] backgrounds. Mark Bazrod Newsletter Graphics Editor " Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting [email protected] Sally Bazrod Mac news, tips, and information. Member-at-Large [email protected] " Useful free items at the monthly Ra#es. Larry Campbell OS SIG Chair " Vendors offer special prices to User [email protected] Discounts. Adam Rice Group members. Multimedia SIG Co-Chair & [email protected] Educational Liaison " Web Site with 12 months of MLMUG Linda McNeil Social Secretary newsletters, meeting information, a member Gail Montgomery [email protected] directory, directions to our meetings, and much gailemontgomery@comcast. more! Our web site is www.mlmug.org. net " MLMUG Mailing List, to post technical Webmaster questions or comments to each other and the Deivy Petrescu experts within the group. [email protected] " Reviewers keep items reviewed. Are you ready to join? Please make a check payable to MLMUG and bring it to a monthly meeting or mail it to: Treasurer, MLMUG P.O. Box 1374 !4 VOLUME 27, NUMBER 5 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP MAY 2016 Bookmarks software maker to decrypt the device? Your device? Anyone’s device? A criminal’s device? A terrorist’s device? Is that power absolute? Apple V.